Warning: The following post is by edgar, and may anger those who are predisposed to disagree with edgar. If you are prone to being upset by edgar voicing his opinions, please do not read further. Read further at your own risk.

Congratulations on his victory to Mr Obama. Let’s hope that he has the courage to change, and to to adopt policies which will actually restore prosperity to Americans, rather than continue the policies which have prolonged our economic malaise over the first 4 years of his presidency. We simply can’t afford another 4 years of his failed economic policies, high unemployment, growing poverty, growing welfare rolls, growing national debt and anemic gdp growth.

Now that you are upset at having read my opinion, despite my warning to you, don’t you wish that you had heeded my warning?

After 8 years of George W Bush turning a surplus into a deficit, and the failure of the Bush tax cuts for the rich to create jobs, it is going to take more than 4 years to turn that sinking ship around.

Thank you for your concurrence, ann and mav. Let’s hope that the spirit of compromise overcomes our political leaders, as they realize the dire political consequences they face that they will face if they fail to protect us from the consequences of the financial cliff that they have created for us. But let’s also hope that they don’t arrive at a politically acceptable compromise, which fails to address the sad facts that our national government keeps spending in excess of one trillion borrowed dollars per year and adds that trillion to our sixteen trillion dollar national debt.

Oates, you can blame anyone, or anything, for the fact that Obamanomics has failed to restore prosperity, but you wisely choose not to argue that Obamanomics has worked. I salute your recognition of the obvious.

Please be honest: If the economy were booming now, would you still be blaiming Bush for the boom, as you now blame him for the weak economy under which we still struggle some four years since Obama was first inaugurated?

Frankly, to blame Bush, because Obamanomics have failed to restore prosperity four years into Obama’s term, is nothing more than an acknowledgement that Obama’s policies have failed to restore poverty, even after four years.

Democrats want Medicare and Social Security for all citizens.
Democrats aren’t out to get Republicans. Safety, peace, security are all issues which will benefit BOTH parties.
Unemployment – some people ENJOY being out of work. Perhaps we should get lazy bones off public assistance.
It’s the extremes of the Republican party which are the issue. Honest Abe didn’t act this way.
The rich don’t need more tax breaks.
Obama won by a significant margin.
The poor need our help, so how can we help? We have the means, so let’s help somebody. How about a Feed the Children truck to the Ozarks?
Consider complaining to companies if you want jobs brought back to America. Start a petition on Change.org, for example. I’ve heard of two major corporations which have reversed this trend, so far (one might be Canadian, sorry, I don’t recall). If you create a petition to better Americans, Democrats will sign it.

“Let’s hope that the spirit of compromise overcomes our political leaders, as they realize the dire political consequences they face that they will face if they fail to protect us from the consequences of the financial cliff that they have created for us.”

oates, the government’s own Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that there were 7,169,000 jobs created during the Bush years, for an average of nearly 75,000 jobs created per month. Only a hyper partisan fool could keep pretending that this fact didn’t exist.

Compare this to Obama’s job creation number 689,000, or an average of over 1,500 jobs created per month. Obama’s weak job creation numbers are dwarfed by Bush’s job creation numbers. Why not just accept these inconvenient truths, and change your opiinion to conform to the facts?

Please answer my question, oates: “If the economy were booming now, would you still be blaiming Bush for the boom, as you now blame him for the weak economy under which we still struggle some four years since Obama was first inaugurated?”

Hey Stephen, don’t you remember when Al Gore got more votes than George Bush? Popular vote means nothing. And trickle down economics is the keystone of the failed Reagan years.

And Edgar,even the GOP blames George Bush for the mess. How else do you explain why he was kept off the Romney campaign trail? What did Bush do with the surplus he inherited from Clinton? Yeah, thought so.

#11 “Unemployment – some people ENJOY being out of work. Perhaps we should get lazy bones off public assistance.”
Totally agree, however, Democrats aren’t going to get them off of well-fare. Ever.

“It’s the extremes of the Republican party which are the issue. Honest Abe didn’t act this way.
The rich don’t need more tax breaks.”
True and true. I wish republicans would stop speaking about things that aren’t going to change like abortion and prayer in school. Those have been ruled on. Period. Shut your mouths. Focus on late term abortion if you have to.

“Consider complaining to companies if you want jobs brought back to America.”
Our president has the power to enact tariffs and punishments, as well as collect taxes rather than forgiving them, on companies that ship jobs overseas. The government has the ability to restrict imports and exports, change building restrictions to make starting companies in the US easier than overseas, as well as punishing corps that do big layoffs as well as hiring temp or contract employees who have no benefits. Public opinion sways some but that’s like swatting at a fly rather than stomping it.

“Democrats aren’t out to get Republicans. Safety, peace, security are all issues which will benefit BOTH parties”
Yes they are. Bipartisan politics is a dirty, dirty thing.

“Obama won by a significant margin” Just not true at all. Not only did 49% not vote for him, they voted for Romney which is really significant given the media campaign against Romney and the ridiculous gaffs the republicans made.

Please stop evading my questions, oates. Please answer the questions I’ve asked you, and I’ll answer yours: On job creation, “Why not just accept these inconvenient truths, and change your opiinion to conform to the facts?” And ““If the economy were booming now, would you still be blaiming Bush for the boom, as you now blame him for the weak economy under which we still struggle some four years since Obama was first inaugurated?”

Poor Oats – I guess that public school education failed to teach him how to read. So Oats hows that trickle down government been working out for you the last 4 years? Do you have more of my money? God knows I sure could use my money back.

elmer, please accept my apology for the division error. Now, please do the subtraction of the Obama’s 15,000 jobs created per month from Bush’s 75,000 to arrive at the average number of jobs created per month more that we experienced under Bush than we are experiencing under Obama. I get 60,000 more jobs per month under Bush, than under Obama. Do you?

Odd, isn’t it, that, despite the brilliance of Obamanomics, it has failed, and miserably, to create as many jobs per month as did Bush’s economice policies? Why do you think that there were 60,000 more jobs created per month under Bush, than there are being created under Obama, given that Obamanomics is so superior to Bush’s economic policies in creating jobs?

I look forward to your analysis of the failure of Obamanomics to create as many jobs per month, on average, as did Bush’s economic policies! I’ll stop here, myself.

Edgar: Sorry, you lost the election, no one has to answer your Tea Party questions.

Ann: Preident Obama won 8 of the 10 richest voting districts in in America, he won 7 of 8 swings states. He won with the unemployment rate being what it is because more people had more faith in him than Romney.

And Boehner on Wednesday declared Obamacare the law of the land.

Sweetie, PRESIDENT Obama definitely won, and you guys definitely lost.

Lol @ “Edgar: Sorry, you lost the election, no one has to answer your Tea Party questions!” I didn’t even know that I was running!

Of course no one has to answer my questions, jango. But, to the intellectually honest and curious, my questions (Odd, isn’t it, that, despite the brilliance of Obamanomics, it has failed, and miserably, to create as many jobs per month as did Bush’s economice policies? Why do you think that there were 60,000 more jobs created per month under Bush, than there are being created under Obama, given that Obamanomics is so superior to Bush’s economic policies in creating jobs?) have some interest, as do your answers to my questions. You can evade my questions, but, to do so would be intellectually dishonest.

Remember Secretary of State Clinton’s famous “Dissent IS patriotic” quote, from when Mr Bush was president! The more things change, the more they remain the same: Dissent IS still patriotic.